theatredelabsurde

Mar 14

honestly had they seriously wanted to explore the concept of free will in tma the web’s plan should have failed and jon should have carried his project through. there was an interesting discussion there to be had abt him choosing to damn his own world: was it out of his desire to save the universe? out of spite not to comply with the web’s demands? was the pull of the eye so strong that his actions were only partially his own? and yet.

#.txt #tmarchive #everyone being ultimately unable to stop Jon because he was the vessel of the apocalypse:#does it mean that freedom is just power? that someone’s choice is someone else’s luck?#is freedom a relative concept then? especially when we’re all bound to ultimately die

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Mar 14

like my problem with the web as master puppeteer of everything is that it creates such a power imbalance in the whole equation to nullify most of the show’s points. annabelle saying that freedom is simply ignorance is an interesting point especially when faced with characters who see knowledge as (amongst other things) a neurotic means to control (the more you know the more you’re in control the freer you are). but the web pulling strings the way it does in the show (through both explicit and subtle control) means that the Mother is so inherently attuned and aware of everyone’s nature that their own behaviour will suit Her schemes not because she influences them but because she picks them from what they are (and She Knows what they are better than they know themselves). how do you combine a Pre-Established scheme funded on omniscience and Free Will? good question. no one has ever been able to give an answer (Dante tried tho)

#.txt #tmarchive #Dante tried but even he had to close that gap with Faith. so you see we’re at ground zero again #and the Web shouldn’t be able to perfectly Know btw. that’s Eye’s territory.… See all

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Mar 14

the tumblr echochamber is incredible btw especially when it comes to the topic of villains and evil every time I come here we’re building over 500 layers of pre-established discussions and then I go into the outside world and we’re still on level -10

#.txt #albeit NOW you can talk about not feeling anything for other people #first time I did it here I got a diagnosis of psychopathy via anon ask

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Mar 14

the Web reveal is still so incomprehensible to me. if one of the Entities has somehow achieved a higher degree of consciousness to the point of communicating their own desires then it’s separate from the others. meaning that the taxonomy was right. meaning that the entire reason why the rituals didn’t work in the first place is rubbish. but even more so. meaning that free will actively does not exist in the tma universe, making the entire point of the podcast absolutely meaningless. how do you fumble smt so badly.

#and like they did plan it all the way through for 5 seasons alright. it was still fucking stupid #.txt #tma #tmarchive #and the final moral dilemma wasn’t a moral dilemma. Jon was right.

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Mar 14

crazy for sleep token to drop a hit that’s just. “so tell me what you meant by living past your half-life in lockstep with the universe and you’re well-versed in the afterlife you know that I’m sanctified by what’s below no matter what you do no matter what you go”…

#.txt #Godspeed to my enemies who’ve been askin for that call sign you know the behavior canines of the saviour #glory to the legion trauma for the neighbours…

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Mar 14

it’s also kinda funny to me how we have Jonah describing himself as the beating heart of something and then we have an Avatar of the End seeing people who are about to die through pulsing veins.

#.txt #tmarchive #like there’s some bitter irony in here damn

theatredelabsurde

Mar 14

can’t stop thinking abt how when Jon was comatose Jonah narrated his dreams. how Jon was said to have cerebral activity but no heartbeat. how Jonah is the beating heart of the institute.

#.txt #tmarchive #tma #jonelias #and then they did nothing abt it

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Mar 14

the painful process of watching the kudos/clicks ratio on your fic getting lower and lower

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Mar 14

this entire thing started because my father was admitted to ER on December 31st and the anxiety of the day gave me one of the worst cases of insomnia in years so to fight off the panic attack I started relistening to Anglerfish btw. and now this fic is 80k words long

#father’s okay btw it wasn’t anything serious-serious he just got us scared #.txt

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quite literally what I’m always saying

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Mar 14

what.ever. downloading what evil means to us as I type

#.txt #thank u to dae for reminding me of this book on my tbr. Will I read it now? Who knows

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Mar 14

crazy what your brain will concoct to make you forget existential dread

#thank u brain for the tma-thoughts they make me want to kill myself a lot less #.txt

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it’s kinda crazy how like. 90% of the people who interact with jonah as a character completely skip over the sentence I first attempted prevention but the cause seemed hopeless. paying heed to his own words (which are to be held true or the statement wouldn’t have been caught on tape) he did not decide to seek power when he first discovered them (he felt curiosity and fear); nor he did so when his companions became entangled with one of the Entities; NOR when the Rituals became an active threat. he was curious, he studied them, he attempted prevention. discussing privilege around jonah is like kicking a dead horse and I shall never go there but it’s insane to me how his first instinct (or choice, either way) was not to exploit the powers to his gain and to bring the Change into the world itself but to stop it from happening and only inverted his route upon discovering that his crusade was meaningless, that there was no hope for any concrete damage control. this is why I will always, always object to any conception of jonah magnus that doesn’t start with him as a good person. sorry.

ep200 should have been "statement of jonah magnus, on fear. statement ripped from subject, right before his death"

the stark divide between the authorial intent in writing jonah magnus vs what we (10 people and a rolling hay bale) got from it is always astounding. like either collective delusion or some kind of divine enlightenment im not sure which

asexual jonah magnus is so important to me. there are like. 2 fics in the tag but nevertheless

jonah/fanshawe is my favorite niche paring just because it allows me to project a caligula-scipio situationship onto them.

the entity of manipulation would have worked a lot better if it relied on the fear of manipulation without actual manipulation underneath, which feeds a lot more into the paranoia.

i staunchly defend the fact that martin sees jon as his mother 2.0 and by earning his love somehow he can turn around 30+ years of abuse into a romance btw. the chance to care for someone slightly monstrous but not TOO much, difficult and disliked, but that, unlike his mother, will accept his care with gratefulness… I mean understandable. not healthy by any means but understandable

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